On Vi, 31 dec 10, 11:35:26, Bob Proulx wrote: > Mike Bird wrote: > > But then they abuse the Debian packaging system by "requiring" > > instead of "recommending" unnecessary packages so that people are > > forced to use their silly hacks. > > The new APT default is that Recommends are the same as Requires and so > a lot of unnecessary packages are now installed. Those should now be > pushed into Suggests. Feel free to file bugs for every package which abuses Recommends. Beware though, that Recommends, according to Policy, should be installed "on all but unusual installations". Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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